350 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



November 4, 1907. 



The Academy met at 8:15 P, M. at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, Former President Kemp presiding in the absence of President 

 Britton and any Vice-President. 



The minutes of the regular meeting of 7 October were read and approved. 

 There being no business to transact the Academy adjourned. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 

 November 4, 1907. 



Section met at 8 : 20 P. M., Professor J. F. Kemp presiding in the ab- 

 sence of Vice-President Grabau. 



Seventy persons were present. 



The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read and approved. 



On motion, Professor A. W. Grabau was nominated Vice-President of 

 the Academy and Professor C. P. Berkey was elected Secretary of the 

 Section for 1908. 



The following program was then offered: 



C. N. Fenner, Notes on the Geology of the First Watchung 



Trap-Sheet. (By title.) 

 George P. Kunz and 

 Henry S. Washington, On the Peridotite of Pike County, Arkansas, 



AND the Occurrence of Diamonds Therein. 

 F. A. Ferret, Vesuvius, Stromboli and the Solfatara in 1906. 



Summary of Papers, 



Drs. Ennz and Washington's paper was illustrated with a very inter- 

 esting series of specimens and with lantern slides and was followed by a 

 discussion. 



Mr. Ferret, of Naples, Italy, gave an informal talk which was illustrated 



